Current Events > Washed up Right Wing talk show host upset that ppl called Dr. Biden, Dr. Biden.

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https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1619803187841761280

This issue here just shows that some people on the right stand for nothing.

If I got my PhD. I wonder if I could change my Screen Name to Dr. Dawg. And 80/80

Oh, these fuck waffles are going back to the "sHe'S nOt A REAL dOcToR!111" bullshit again huh.

I do think it's silly when non-medical PhDs ask to be called "doctor", but they do literally have doctorates.

i did need some salt for my coffee, thank you

hockeybub89 posted...

I do think it's silly when non-medical PhDs ask to be called "doctor", but they do literally have doctorates.

MD come after other doctors .

It's amazing how petty and shitty they are.

hockeybub89 posted...

I do think it's silly when non-medical PhDs ask to be called "doctor", but they do literally have doctorates.

Academic doctorates are more rigorous than MDs. But the only lab spaces I've been in where people addressed other people as "Dr. X" have been MD led labs, and med school centered labs.

I think the whole "pretentious PhDs demanding to be called Doctor" is just not a real scenario.

Who is still paying her to be doing this alt right talking point?

Man I sure did fuck up my life. Here I've been an insufferable bitch my whole life, for free. But she does it and gets paid. It's just not fair, I tells ya

Megyn Kelly: "Hurr durr how is she a Dr!?"

Also Megyn Kelly: *gluk-gluk's "Dr" Seb Gorka*

Hey everyone, a republican piece of shit is being a giant fucking hypocrite again. Quick, everyone look surprised!

COVxy posted...

Academic doctorates are more rigorous than MDs. But the only lab spaces I've been in where people addressed other people as "Dr. X" have been MD led labs, and med school centered labs.

I think the whole "pretentious PhDs demanding to be called Doctor" is just not a real scenario.

I'm just saying I don't personally call them "Doctor" because their everyday profession is not the one we colloquially know as "doctor". Unless they asked me to do so.

What is hilarious is that her father was a college professor and guess what his title was.....

mybbqrules posted...

Megyn Kelly: "Hurr durr how is she a Dr!?"

Also Megyn Kelly: *gluk-gluk's "Dr" Seb Gorka*

Hey everyone, a republican piece of shit is being a giant fucking hypocrite again. Quick, everyone look surprised!

I was about to post the very same thing

hockeybub89 posted...

I'm just saying I don't personally call them "Doctor" because their everyday profession is not the one we colloquially know as "doctor". Unless they asked me to do so.

Nobody, and i mean really pretty much nobody, is asking you to.

mybbqrules posted...

Megyn Kelly: "Hurr durr how is she a Dr!?"

Also Megyn Kelly: *gluk-gluk's "Dr" Seb Gorka*

Hey everyone, a republican piece of shit is being a giant fucking hypocrite again. Quick, everyone look surprised!

Well no, that was 6 years ago, she has changed!

Was literally the argument multiple cock heads were using about that.

COVxy posted...

I think the whole "pretentious PhDs demanding to be called Doctor" is just not a real scenario.

What do you mean by that?

Just curious because I know quite a few people with doctorates and, yes, they flat out tell others to call them doctor. They are mostly in education. Has your experience been different?

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

What do you mean by that?

Just curious because I know quite a few people with doctorates and, yes, they flat out tell others to call them doctor. They are mostly in education. Has your experience been different?

I've never met a single PhD, or even an MD for that matter, ask people to refer to them as Dr. in social situations. Most PhDs I know even explicitly ask colleagues at work to not to call them Dr.

Many women PhDs will insist on the title in front of students because they are often explicitly disrespected by students for being women.

When I worked tech support for Apple I had a few fuckos try to tell me to refer to them as "Dr". Shit makes me sick. Let's just the support they received from me after that was less than helpful

Dr. Slayer sounds nice and handsome, I'll take it.

COVxy posted...

I've never met a single PhD, or even an MD for that matter, ask people to refer to them as Dr. in social situations. Most PhDs I know even explicitly ask colleagues at work to not to call them Dr.

Thats honestly interesting and surprising to me. My experience has been the opposite.

People are different, for sure.

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Thats honestly interesting and surprising to me. My experience has been the opposite.

People are different, for sure.

As someone with a doctorate, who works at a startup with 19 other PhDs, and who has worked with many PhDs in my postdocs and grad school, I also have never once heard any of my friends or colleagues insist on being called doctor in a serious manner.

TendoDRM posted...

As someone with a doctorate, who works at a startup with 19 other PhDs, and who has worked with many PhDs in my postdocs and grad school, I also have never once heard any of my friends or colleagues insist on being called doctor in a serious manner.

So Dr. Tendo. If you are like tying do a business deal with your start up and they keep calling you Mr. Tendo. You never want to say... That's Dr. Tendo ?

Jennywentnorth8 posted...

When I worked tech support for Apple I had a few fuckos try to tell me to refer to them as "Dr". Shit makes me sick. Let's just the support they received from me after that was less than helpful

I would have said sure if you call Mr./Ms.

TendoDRM posted...

As someone with a doctorate, who works at a startup with 19 other PhDs, and who has worked with many PhDs in my postdocs and grad school, I also have never once heard any of my friends or colleagues insist on being called doctor in a serious manner.

Yeah, for me it's basically

First Name > Full Name > Dr. Last Name > Mr. Last Name.

because I am not in a situation where I have to worry about being disrespected (as CovXY said, minorities and women often will make sure people use their title because if they don't they tend to be more disrespected). But if someone is insisting on being formal I'd rather they get it right than not.

Edit: To be clear, this is still mostly in a work setting. I don't care what the electric company representative, etc. call me on the phone.

Man we have another Doctor here. This is such a classy place.

I once had a guy sign his credit card receipt as Dr. ____ when he went through the drive through of a fast food place I used to work at. If it was force of habit or pretentiousness, I can't say. But it was only that one time.

Anteaterking posted...

Yeah, for me it's basically

First Name > Full Name > Dr. Last Name > Mr. Last Name.

what about Dr. First Name? I've been using that one with my only doctor friend for ever.

I do think it's kind of funny how insecure people get about the title of "Dr." though. Like I know there *exist* people who are really pretentious who insist everyone calls them Dr. but most settings that I've worked in that hasn't really been the case. But there are people out there who don't have an advanced degree who think that people use a title because they think they're better than you, blah blah blah, and it's usually the type of people who think of themselves as being particularly smart who have this problem. There are dumb(er) people with doctorates and smart(er) people without them, but I guess it's threatening to their ego for some reason that there are people who (by their own interpretation) are deemed "smarter" than them.

Also for the "I only call my doctor Dr. ____ thank you very much"...why is it that you call your doctor that? You don't call your barber Barber _____ or your banker Banker ______.

Medussa posted...

what about Dr. First Name? I've been using that one with my only doctor friend for ever.

I think it sounds weird but I don't dislike it as a matter of it being "disrespectful" or something. I don't really like Mr. First Name either though so idk.

Medussa posted...

what about Dr. First Name? I've been using that one with my only doctor friend for ever.

I call my PCP Dr. First Name because he was my dad's good friend in high school, so he's closer to me than my other medical professionals. He'll tell me stories about my dad and my dad will tell me stories about the doctor.

Anteaterking posted...

Also for the "I only call my doctor Dr. ____ thank you very much"...why is it that you call your doctor that? You don't call your barber Barber _____ or your banker Banker ______.

Social norms I guess? Do you call your doctor Mr. or Mrs. or first name only? Also, I speak to doctor's offices literally every day, so it's habit.

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Thats honestly interesting and surprising to me. My experience has been the opposite.

People are different, for sure.

What I'm saying is by far the norm. Anything else is so divergent from reality I usually assume it comes from a place of rhetoric not experience.

I ask my students to call me by my first name because I actively dislike the title.

People with PhDs are posting in this shit heap? Fuck is y'all doing.

SuperShake666 posted...

People with PhDs are posting in this shit heap? Fuck is y'all doing.

We've always had like around half a dozen PhDs on this board on and off posting.

I always wondered, is this just an American thing, or do people in other countries automatically think MD when they hear the word doctor?

SuperShake666 posted...

People with PhDs are posting in this shit heap? Fuck is y'all doing.

Dont worry, most of them are about as useful as the rest of us.

That feeling when you're such a good person that the biggest dig your opponents have is to complain you're not a good enough doctor.

I'd take it as a compliment.

UnfairRepresent posted...

That feeling when you're such a good person that the biggest dig your opponents have is to complain you're not a good enough doctor.

I'd take it as a compliment.

The ex-Fox news host posted this for attention. Nothing more. Its the Tucker playbook. Say whatever and wait for feedwatchers to spread it.

hockeybub89 posted...

Social norms I guess? Do you call your doctor Mr. or Mrs. or first name only? Also, I speak to doctor's offices literally every day, so it's habit.

Sorry I meant more like... why do people never think twice about doing that? I refer to them as Dr. but that's because it's their title. But I introduce people as Dr. so-and-so when they have PhDs as well (at which point they can say whether they're fine with just being _____ ). Or in a non-formal setting I'll just say "hey this is my friend First Name".